Do you want a converged device? Right now I use a Dell Axim x50v and I really like it. The vga screen is great for movies, games and gps, it has bluetooth and wifi and it’s a dependable device. I have an 30 Gigabyte iPod for music, and a cellphone. If I combined them all into one device then I would have to make sacrifices. What would I sacrifice? I don’t want to sacrifice hard drive space for music, nor do I want to give up my vga screen, bluetooth or wifi, or even my touch screen. Does such a device exist that provides everything I want? But I also want it to be compatible with Nextel and have push to talk, which we use at work. Does the new iPod phone have all these things, or most of them? Didn’t Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, take some rips at the iPhone saying it’s, "not suitable for business purposes", due to it’s lack of a keyboard and 3G support. Oh well, I guess that phone isn’t for me either.

And I like the idea of the UMPC computers, or Ultra Mobile pcs, but they just don’t seem to fit into any  niche yet. They’re too big for a pocket, too small to compete with a laptop, and they have no real processing power and very few have a real keyboard. I can’t clip them to my belt either. I’ve been thinking about tablet pcs, but now I’m really far from convergence, aren’t I!

I think I’m just going to wait. I don’t want a "jack of all trades, master of none" device that I won’t enjoy. Batman had different devices for different occasions. Why can’t I? You know, that gets me thinking, when you go to some sites like Dell, you can build your own pc and add all the accessories you want. Will we be able to do that with our converged devices? That might be a good solution. But that’s just my opinion.

[tags]umpc, Jamm, just another mobile monday, ipod[/tags]